11.11.2011

Let me tell you about my day, in bullet points and photos:
* Have been going 100 mph since 5:30am

* Went to a fun morning panel with presentations by Liz Groeneveld (who is doing great research into zines by girls and women--and quoted me!) and Jessalyn Keller, who's writing a piece for an edited collection that I'm also going to be in.

* Got reconnected with Rachel Reinke. She was amused at how many of my friends knew who she was when I said, "You know, I advised her bachelor's essay AND she was Maybelle's nanny the same year. She came to my house to do bachelor's essay advising after Maybelle went to bed." My friends said, "Oh! Right!"

* Took part in a fun roundtable presentation about blogging, with a bunch of my co-editors at Girl w/Pen. My big insight: I'm able to fit blogging into my already full life because it's really fun. Not all that chewy an insight, but true!

* Had a lengthy conversation with my editor at NYU. We decided that I'll plan to have the full book proposal, including a sample chapter, to her by the end of the summer.

* Had a conversation with my new BFF, Judy Norsigian, one of the original members of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective that did Our Bodies, Ourselves. She seemed a bit surprised when I told her how honored I was to get to talk with her. She took my card!

* After all that, I went to my room and napped during big afternoon plenary.

6 comments:

I squealed a little at that sticker. I've been seeing the hashtag go by in my twitter feed and have been wondering how I can possible put myself in a position to be involved in this conference next year, because the amount of awesome in one place is inspiring.

Ahh - YAY! Prenatal testing is going to be a beautiful, brilliant book. By the way, I'm going to be in Charleston really, really soon! I can't wait to see you and catch up on all the awesome WGS stuff that I missed this semester :)

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Alison Piepmeier was a professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, and much, much more. When she wasn't working to bring down the patriarchy, she wrote here and elsewhere about feminist disability studies, Zines, her ugly car, and an eclectic range of topics. She also wrote about the brain tumor that eventually caused her death on August 12, 2016, at the age of 43.
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